logo-profitable

How to make your logo design process more profitable

This article brought to you by:Visit UPrinting.com, the online printer that understands the needs of designers. The other day, I was visiting with a fellow designer who commented to me that they had recently completed a logo design project for which they collected very little money. Now, don’t get me wrong, it was more than [...]

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Why having a creative block is really a good thing

This article brought to you by:Visit UPrinting.com, the online printer that understands the needs of designers. If you’re a designer, it’s very likely that at one point or another you were working on a project and felt like it wasn’t going anywhere. It’s almost like all the ideas get sucked out of your head with [...]

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How having the right people around you can boost design business

This article brought to you by:Reach out to potential clients with brochures and business cards from UPrinting. One of the things about being a freelancer is you end up spending a lot of time alone. After all, you work at your computer, at home, or in cafes, and only you and your expertise are required [...]

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What’s really keeping you from freelancing?

I‘ve been there before. You wake up every morning, dreading the day ahead of you. You drag yourself into work, find a pile of sticky notes on your desk, make it through lunch, and work through the afternoon looking at the clock every 30 minutes. Every day on the drive home you think to yourself, [...]

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When to fire a design client

There’s a lot of negative karma floating around in the design community about how terrible design clients are, what a pain they are to deal with, and how annoying their requests are. As a firm advocate of treating clients with respect instead of contempt, this article is not an attempt to complain about client relationships [...]

designers read your blog content

How to write blog posts that designers actually want to read

In the relatively short amount of time I have been blogging about design, I have been asked some version of the following question multiple times:   “What are the best kinds of design articles to write?” I can understand the motivation behind the question. The more designers read your blog posts, the more influence you [...]